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default thereof the Master shall forfeit and pay
a sum not exceeding ten pounds.
21. Any anchor, kedge, or cable, slipped
or cut from, if not weighed within twenty-four
hours, may be weighed by order of the Har-
bour Master or Pilot, at the risk of and the
expense of the owner: And when no buoy rope
has been attached, the anchor, kedge, or cable
shall be forfeited.
22. After a vessel has been unloaded and
properly ballasted, it will be at the option of
the Harbour Master to remove her out clear of
the shipping, to make room for vesels requiring
berths to unload, and if there shall not be on
board any vessel which has been unloaded
sufficient men or ballast or requisite tackle to
enable her to be removed, the Harbour Master
or Pilot may remove such vessel at the expense
and risk of the owner thereof.
23. Any person obstructing or impeding the
navigation of any channel, river, inlet, or
creek, or obstructing any public landing place
by placing a vessel, cable, boat, or warp, or
other article in the way, shall be liable to a
penalty not exceeding ten pounds; and in case
any person causing such obstruction or impedi-
ment will not remove or cause to be removed
the same when ordered by the Harbour Master
or Pilot, the Harbour Master or Pilot may cast
off or cut any such obstruction.
24. The owner or part owner in, or the com-
mander of, any vessel or boat which has been
sunk, stranded, or run on shore, or the owner
of any baulk of timber, or other bulky article
which is in the water who does not clear the
Harbour of such vessels or boats, or remove
such baulk of timber or other bulky article
upon being required so to do, by notice in
writing under the hand of the Harbour Master,
or any Justice of the Peace, within such rea-
sonable time as may be mentioned for the pur-
pose in such notice, shall, for every such offence,
forfeit a penalty not exceeding ten pounds.
25. Any Justice upon the complaint of
the Harbour Master or any other person, may
issue his warrant for the clearing of the Har-
bour or removing of such baulk of timber or
other bulky article in such manner as such
Justice shall direct, and for causing such vessel
or boat, baulk of timber, or other bulky article
to be sold, and out of the money arising from
such sale may pay the charges of such clearing
or removal, as the case may be, paying the
surplus to the Harbour Master, to be accounted
for as fees collected by him.
26. Any person who makes any vessel, boat,
timber, or other article fast to any buoy, bea-
cor, or sea mark, and any master or owner of
a vessel being navigated without having a pilot
on hoard, or the owner of any boat by which
any such buoy, beacon, or sea mark is acci-
dentally removed, injured, or destroyed, who
does not forthwith make good such damage, or
pay to the Harbour Master a sum sufficient to
cover the expense of so doing, shall for every
such offence forfeit a penalty not exceeding
twenty pounds.
27. Whenever a vessel not employed in
coasting only arrives within the Harbour, the
Harbour Master shall appoint the place where
she is to cast anchor or be moored; and as
often as the master of any vessel is desirous of
removing her from one place of anchorage to
another, he shall notify in writing such his
desire to the Harbour Master, who shall there-
upon, unless he sees sufficient reason to the
contrary, direct the removal accordingly; and
the Harbour Master may remove any vessel,
timber, or any other article from any berth
alongside any Wharf or elsewhere, if such
removal is, in the opinion of the Harbour
Master, desirable and proper for the general
accommodation of the shipping; and for any
such service so to be performed by such Har-
bour Master there shall be paid by the master
or owner of such vessel to such Harbour Mas-
ter, the sum of 7s. 6d. for each vessel under
100 tons register, and for each of the articles;
and a sum at the rate of 1d. per ton register
for each vessel above 100 tons register, to be
accounted for as aforesaid.
28. In the performance of any such service
by the Harbour Master, the master of the
vessel and the crew thereof are required to
afford to such Harbour Master all
possible aid and assistance to effect the same,
and in effecting any such service, or any other
service in the execution of his duty, the Har-
bour Master is empowered to make fast and
attach any rope or other tackle to any other
vessel, and if there is no crew of the vessel to
be removed, or the crew thereof refuse or fail
to aid and assist as aforesaid, or if the crew or
tackle or quantity of ballast on board of such
vessel is not sufficient to enable the Harbour
Master to effect such removal, he is empowered
to hire and employ such other assistance and
tackle, and to purchase and put on board such
vessel such other quantity of ballast as to him
seems requisite, at the cost or charges of the
master or owner of such vessels, and such cost
and charges such master or owner is required
to pay to the Harbour Master, to be accounted
for as aforesaid; and if any person, without
the consent or authority of the Harbour Mas-
ter, cuts or casts off any such rope or tackle so
made fast and attached to any other vessel as
aforesaid, or in any other manner infringes this
regulation, such person shall forfeit a penalty
not exceeding twenty pounds.
29. Any person without due authority
resisting, impeding, or obstructing the Harbour
Master, Pilot, or other person deputed by either
of them, in the execution of his duty, or using
threatening or abusive language to them or
any of them, shall forfeit and pay a sum not
exceeding five pounds.
30. No rubbish or filth is to be landed on.
any lands belonging to the Crown, except in
such places as the Harbour Master may point
out, under a penalty of five pounds, to be paid
by any person landing such rubbish or filth.
31. No ballast, rubbish, gravel, earth, stones,
earthenware, glass, or filth is to be thrown over-
board from any vessel or boat, but is to be
landed and placed at such place as the Harbour